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   From: "CATHERINE K SADLAK" <cathysadlak@???>
Subject: [mcc30721] Tribute to the US from Canadian
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TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES

This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.

America: The Good Neighbor.



Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from

Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television

Commentator. What follows is the full text of his

trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional

Record:



"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
Americans as the most generous and possibly the

least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany,

Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy

were lifted out of the debris of war by the

Americans who poured in billions of dollars and

forgave other billions in debts.



None of these countries is today paying even the

interest on its remaining debts to the United

States. When France was in danger of collapsing in

1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and

their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the

streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.



When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the

United States that hurries in to help. This spring,

59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.

Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman

Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged

countries. Now newspapers in those countries are

writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.



I'd like to see just one of those countries that is

gloating over the erosion of the United States

dollar build its own airplane. Does any other

country in the world have a plane to equal the

Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the

Douglas DC10?



If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the

International lines except Russia fly American

Planes? Why does no other land on earth even

consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You

talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.

You talk about German technocracy, and you get

automobiles. You talk about American technocracy,

and you find men on the moon - not once, but several

times - and safely home again.



You talk about scandals, and the Americans put

theirs right in the store window for everybody to

look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued

and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most

of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are

getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to

spend here.



When the railways of France, Germany and India were

breaking down through age, it was the Americans who

rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the

New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an

old caboose. Both are still broke.



I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced

to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name

me even one time when someone else raced to the

Americans in trouble? I don't think there was

outside help even during the San Francisco

earthquake.





Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one

Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get

kicked around. They will come out of this thing

with their flag high. And when they do, they are

entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are

gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada

is not one of those."



Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!



This is one of the best editorials that I have ever

read regarding the United States. It is nice that

one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of

the world would realize it. We are always blamed for

everything, and never even get a thank you for the

things we do.



I would hope that each of you would send this to as

many people as you can and emphasize that they

should send it to as many of their friends until

this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am

just a single American that has read this, TRIBUTE TO
THE UNITED STATES













Maggie Ward

Accounting/Business Analyst

Phone: 8-262-6095 or (301)803-6095

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